The challenge is that I don't think the general public understand and care as much as the tech community cares.<p>If as a tech person, you care enough about these issues, what do you do about it?
Are you able to steer your friends toward alternatives?
How do we make it clear to the non-tech savvy what these issues really are, and how they are affected.<p>When looking at the app store, most people (I think) feel that they shouldn't care if apple has a closed ecosystem, because that closed ecosystem has 200k+ apps while the more open android and blackberry have less about 1/4 that amount.<p>With respect to Facebook, even though I understand the implications of Facebook's privacy policies, I'm damned if I can think of a situation where it would really be used against me (maybe I'm just not evil enough). But I know I don't like their policies.<p>We need more than just 'alternatives', we need alternatives that are better than these in multiple areas.